Why did I waken suddenly?
Did a star fall? Or, hark! . . .
Did a bird call? Or did Hope
Set a lamp in the dark
To flame full into my eyes
And signal, —“Awake! Arise!”
“The Message” as it appears in Higginson’s The Voice of April-Land and Other Poems (1903).
“The Message” as it appears in Higginson’s Four-Leaf Clover (1901).